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Editor's Note
Book Details
Production Details
Bound in printed and blocked clothPrinted paper slipcase
Dimensions
10 inches x 6¾ inchesFont
Set in SabonPages
496 pagesAuthor
Carlos Ruiz ZafónIllustrated By
Jorge GonzálezIllustration
7 double-page spread colour illustrations, black & white title-page illustrationPublication Date
05/03/2024The Shadow of the Wind
The Shadow of the Wind
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Born in Buenos Aires in 1970, Jorge Gonzalez has lived in Spain for almost twenty years. His conceptual, graphic style is stylised and González uses media including pastel, collage, charcoal and coloured pencil in his work. His book Fueye/Bandonéon won First Prize for Graphic Novel FNAC-Sinsentido in 2009. He also published the children’s stories La Cueva del Bandolero and Kinú y la ley de Amarok and Hate Jazz. He is the author of the animated short film Jazz Song and collaborates with The New Yorker. His latest publications include The Lord of the Flies, Memories of the Subsoil, and Barbosa the Pirate.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Born in Buenos Aires in 1970, Jorge Gonzalez has lived in Spain for almost twenty years. His conceptual, graphic style is stylised and González uses media including pastel, collage, charcoal and coloured pencil in his work. His book Fueye/Bandonéon won First Prize for Graphic Novel FNAC-Sinsentido in 2009. He also published the children’s stories La Cueva del Bandolero and Kinú y la ley de Amarok and Hate Jazz. He is the author of the animated short film Jazz Song and collaborates with The New Yorker. His latest publications include The Lord of the Flies, Memories of the Subsoil, and Barbosa the Pirate.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Born in Buenos Aires in 1970, Jorge Gonzalez has lived in Spain for almost twenty years. His conceptual, graphic style is stylised and González uses media including pastel, collage, charcoal and coloured pencil in his work. His book Fueye/Bandonéon won First Prize for Graphic Novel FNAC-Sinsentido in 2009. He also published the children’s stories La Cueva del Bandolero and Kinú y la ley de Amarok and Hate Jazz. He is the author of the animated short film Jazz Song and collaborates with The New Yorker. His latest publications include The Lord of the Flies, Memories of the Subsoil, and Barbosa the Pirate.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Born in Buenos Aires in 1970, Jorge Gonzalez has lived in Spain for almost twenty years. His conceptual, graphic style is stylised and González uses media including pastel, collage, charcoal and coloured pencil in his work. His book Fueye/Bandonéon won First Prize for Graphic Novel FNAC-Sinsentido in 2009. He also published the children’s stories La Cueva del Bandolero and Kinú y la ley de Amarok and Hate Jazz. He is the author of the animated short film Jazz Song and collaborates with The New Yorker. His latest publications include The Lord of the Flies, Memories of the Subsoil, and Barbosa the Pirate.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Born in Buenos Aires in 1970, Jorge Gonzalez has lived in Spain for almost twenty years. His conceptual, graphic style is stylised and González uses media including pastel, collage, charcoal and coloured pencil in his work. His book Fueye/Bandonéon won First Prize for Graphic Novel FNAC-Sinsentido in 2009. He also published the children’s stories La Cueva del Bandolero and Kinú y la ley de Amarok and Hate Jazz. He is the author of the animated short film Jazz Song and collaborates with The New Yorker. His latest publications include The Lord of the Flies, Memories of the Subsoil, and Barbosa the Pirate.
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ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Born in Buenos Aires in 1970, Jorge Gonzalez has lived in Spain for almost twenty years. His conceptual, graphic style is stylised and González uses media including pastel, collage, charcoal and coloured pencil in his work. His book Fueye/Bandonéon won First Prize for Graphic Novel FNAC-Sinsentido in 2009. He also published the children’s stories La Cueva del Bandolero and Kinú y la ley de Amarok and Hate Jazz. He is the author of the animated short film Jazz Song and collaborates with The New Yorker. His latest publications include The Lord of the Flies, Memories of the Subsoil, and Barbosa the Pirate.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Born in Barcelona in 1964, Carlos Ruiz Zafón was one of the most widely read Spanish authors. Following a career in advertising, he moved to Los Angeles to work as a scriptwriter before writing his first novel, The Prince of Mist, which won the Edebé Prize for Children’s Literature in 1993. Zafón was best-known for his novel The Shadow of the Wind (2001; Folio Society 2023), which was the first in his four-volume collection called ‘The Cemetary of Forgotten Books’. Zafón died in Los Angeles in 2020.
Lucia Graves
Lucia Graves is an English writer and translator. Graves grew up in Mallorca where she spoke English, Spanish and Catalan. After studying at the University of Oxford, Graves returned to Spain and lived mainly in Barcelona, before moving to London in the 1990s. Graves has translated more than 30 volumes, most notably Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s ‘The Cemetary of Forgotten Books’ cycle, as well as writing the memoir A Woman Unknown (1999) and novel The Memory House (2002).